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Safety, Care & Nurturing (SCAN)

The Safety, Care and Nurturing Clinic cares for children by identifying, preventing, and treating all forms of child abuse. We develop innovative educational strategies for medical and investigative...

Pediatric Sports Medicine Fellowship

Our Sports Medicine Center Faculty and Fellows Meet the Team How to Apply With the epidemic of sports-related injuries over the past decade, our Sports Medicine Center has been growing by leaps and bounds...

Sleep Medicine Fellowship

Our Sleep Center Faculty and Fellows Meet the Team How to Apply The Sleep Fellowship Program at Children’s Mercy is one of a select few programs in the country that provides pediatric-focused sleep...

Pain Management Team

Meet the Pain Management Program team at Children's Mercy.

Dental Clinic Team

Meet the Dental Clinic team at Children's Mercy.

Data Science and Informatics at Children's Mercy Research Institute

The Research Informatics group at Children's Mercy Research Institute provides technical resources that support research administrative systems and innovative solutions.

Emerging Infections a New Area of Emphasis at the Children's Mercy Research Institute

The new Area of Emphasis is dedicated to recognizing and surveilling new and reemerging pediatric infectious diseases around the world...

Drs. Laura Plencner and Molly Krager Receive Funding to Broaden Food Security Initiatives, Including Healthcare-Based Food Pantry System at Children’s Mercy

Laura Plencner, MD, Pediatrics and Hospital Medicine, and Molly Krager, MD, Pediatrics and Hospital Medicine, and co-chairs of the Children’s Mercy Kansas City Hunger Free Hospital Council received a...

Children’s Mercy’s STAR 2.0 Program Receives Funding to Further Program Expansion, Support Student Needs While Participating

Children’s Mercy Kansas City’s STAR 2.0 Program received a one-year, $5,000 grant from the BlueScope Foundation as well as a one-year, $25,000 grant from the Abe and Anna Bograd Memorial Trust to support...

Dr. Staggs Serves as U.S. Expert on International Study of Psychiatric Restraint Use

Vincent Staggs, PhD was invited to join a team of researchers from universities in New Zealand, Japan, and Australia to compare rates of mechanical restraint in psychiatric care.

Jonathan Wagner, DO, Receives Grant to Study Contribution of Liver Adiposity on Statin Transport Response

Guidelines for prescribing physicians may subsequently be developed to "personalize" dosing for pediatric obese patients, potentially making statin therapy less toxic and more effective for individual...

New Tool Helps Combat Malnutrition

MUAC z-score tape has changed how pediatric malnutrition is evaluated at Children’s Mercy and across the globe.

Project Will Study Housing Assistance During Childhood

Jeffrey Colvin’s study is titled “Childhood Housing Assistance and Adult Health: Life Course Critical Periods and Cumulative Impact.”

Dr. Jeffrey Colvin Receives Grant to Investigate Differences in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death by Age

Jeffrey Colvin, MD, FAAP, Pediatrics, received a 2-year, $70,000 grant award from the American SIDS Institute for his study “Using Machine Learning to Differentiate Mechanisms of SUPC from Other SUID...

Dr. Vivekanand Yadav Receives Funding to Study Gene Mutations of Lethal Pediatric Brain Tumor with Goal of New Potential Therapies

Dr. Yadav’s study, “Epigenetically activated ID1 is a key transcriptional regulator of DIPG invasion and is targetable with cannabidiol,” will explore the gene responsible for the lethal pediatric brain...

Dr. Scott Younger Receives $3.1 Million NIH R01 Grant to Better Distinguish Genetic Variants that Cause Congenital Birth Defects

Dr. Younger’s project, “Systematic Identification and Phenotypic Characterization of Causal Genetic Variants in Rare Disease-Associated Birth Defects,” looks to distinguish specific genetic variants that...

Dr. Srivastava Receives Funding to Study Connection Between Scaffold Protein and Nephrotic Syndrome

Tarak Srivastava, MD, FASN, Nephrology, was awarded a 1-year grant shared with his collaborator Mukut Sharma, PhD, at Kansas City VA Medical Center through the Pediatric Glomerular Disease Accelerator...

Family Advisory Board

PFAC Family Advisory Board Logo The Family Advisory Board (FAB) consists of 21 families who are primary caregivers of a child who has been cared for at Children's Mercy. The FAB collaborates with...

Tuition Repayment

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Accessibility at Children's Mercy

At Children’s Mercy, we believe every child and family deserves equitable access to care, communication, and support. Our Accessibility Services team is dedicated to ensuring that individuals with...